Wild life in the burbs!

2006 Backyard

2007 Backyard


We don't live in Longhorn Ranch, Sunburst Farms or the Swift's horsey compound - just an ordinary neighborhood. Still we have a lot of backyard birds except when our annual, guest arrives!

Taken from the kitchen-window  December 2010

Our hawks arrive around Halloween and leave in mid-April. This year we've had our friend the  Sharp-shinned Hawk and a pair of small black hawks. I like them all.




I couldn't get a picture him on the last two visits. But after he feasts I can record what remains. Honestly it is a pretty arty arrangement of feathers left over! (If you are squeamish, don't look too closely at the second picture.) 

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1-18-11

Everybody has to eat.

But wait there's more in my neighborhood.....This morning around 7 am....I glanced across the street to Ed's house and saw a coyote eating his breakfast.  OMG, a  quick look with the binoculars revealed a batch of rusty colored feathers!

The photographers got pretty good pictures, even in low light.

The rest of the story: the coyote finally got spooked, dropped the chicken and took off. Amazingly 5 minutes later he returned and took his breakfast down the street somewhere.

... what was left a bunch of feathers and .......

Eddie has plans for this very fresh egg.

 Ummmm.....better ask him about it.